Mendham principal's hair color on the line in upcoming 5K charity race

MENDHAM — What would the principal look like as a blonde? A redhead? A brunette? James Bigsby, the new principal at Mendham’s Mountain View Middle School, will give students a chance to find out, challenging them to a 5K charity race.

"If 100 Mountain View students — and I will count their family members, too — beat me, I will color it whatever color the students want at a local salon," Bigsby, 41, said in a press release.

The 3rd annual Harvest Hustle 5K and 1-mile Kids’ Fun Run, hosted by the Mendham Borough Home and School Association, supports community health and fitness and is run in memory of Sgt. Richard Morales, a local police officer who died in 2009.